James Nachtwey Quotes

What I think is funny is when people, despite tragic situations, are still hopeful, still trying. It's sweet and sad - and, to me, hilarious.

I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.

Today's teardrops are tomorrow's rainbows.

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.

People wrote the most beautiful things during the ugliest times.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

Anyone who has to write an obituary for me one day will probably say, 'She did absolute depths of agony really well.' I'm not, however, an unhappy person.

When you're going through tough moments, you never know when you're going to have good moments.

A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there's always something else; there's always hope.

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.

I'm more apt to cry at something beautiful than at something sad.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard.

If I were in the government, I would persuade the prime minister to see the beauty in the fact that people see Israel as a haven - from their sadness to their hope.

I'm all for the banalities of life and humiliation and everyday tragedies, but I also think people have big moments, and they have bigness in them.

Horrible things can happen to you, and horrible things happened to us on September 11. But if we look for love and happiness and fulfillment, we will find it.

I find Spike Jones' movies to be really very inventive and funny, but they're really sad and touching and really key into the different facets of the human experience.

If I write a sad song, at the end it's gotta be like, 'Dude, things are looking up!'

I've had a very happy life, and although I have had tragedy, I've never suffered from any darkness.

Even in the middle of tragedy, we find moments of humor, moments of tenderness, of simple happiness.